Autonomous Vehicle Event Response for Cabin Adaptation and Rerouting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles lack the ability to adapt and enhance their functionality and occupant experience in response to internal events, external interactions, and environmental indicators, limiting their utility and safety.
Innovation Solution
An autonomous vehicle system that includes a control system capable of autonomously rerouting, altering cabin settings, interacting with external humans and indicators, and facilitating occupant activities such as sleeping, working, and cooking, while personalizing the vehicle based on occupant identity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If autonomous vehicles operate without human control, then safety and free time are improved, but the ability to adapt to internal events and external interactions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The control system continuously monitors events within the autonomous vehicle (such as occupant status, system anomalies) and adjusts operations accordingly. This feedback loop enables the vehicle to adapt to internal conditions while maintaining autonomous operation, resolving the contradiction between autonomous safety and adaptability to internal events.
Solution Approach 2:
The autonomous vehicle independently responds to detected events without human intervention. The control system autonomously determines and executes appropriate actions based on monitored events, enabling the vehicle to serve itself in adapting to both internal and external conditions while maintaining safety through automated decision-making.
2Device complexity
If autonomous vehicles lack adaptation capability, then system complexity is reduced, but occupant experience and utility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The control system is divided into specialized modules that handle different event types independently (occupant monitoring, navigation, communication, cabin management). This segmentation allows the system to achieve high adaptability through modular components rather than a monolithic complex system, enabling personalized occupant experience while managing complexity through functional decomposition.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system is designed to perform multiple functions through a single integrated platform. It can respond to diverse events (occupant needs, navigation decisions, external communications, cabin adjustments) using a universal event-processing architecture, providing versatile occupant experience without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
3Ease of operation
If autonomous vehicles cannot respond to external interactions, then communication capabilities are reduced, but safety protocols may be simplified
Solution Approach 1:
The control system acts as an intermediary between external entities (humans, systems, indicators) and the autonomous vehicle operations. It processes external communications and indicators through a standardized interface, enabling versatile communication while maintaining safety through structured protocol handling and automated verification of external inputs.
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AI summary
An autonomous vehicle configured to facilitate its use and/or enhance what it and/or occupants can do with it, such as, for example, by: autonomously acting based on events within the autonomous vehicle, including by autonomously rerouting itself, altering a cabin of the autonomous vehicle, notifying a third party external to the autonomous vehicle, stopping (e.g., parking) the autonomous vehicle, altering how the autonomous vehicle drives itself, and/or performing other actions based on what and/or how an occupant is doing, an emergency, or another event occurring in the cabin of the autonomous vehicle; autonomously acting based on interactions with (e.g., gestures of) humans (e.g., police officers, school-crossing guards, traffic guards at roadwork or other temporary traffic control sites, drivers of other vehicles, etc.) external to the autonomous vehicle; autonomously acting based on indicators placed at particular locations (e.g., drive-through establishments, potholes, parking spots, etc.); facilitating acts of occupants in the cabin of the autonomous vehicle, such as acts unrelated to and normally not done while driving, including, for example, sleeping, exercising, working, eating, cooking, and/or any other suitable act; and/or automatically personalizing the autonomous vehicle for an occupant (e.g., a configuration of the cabin, a self-driving mode, a destination and/or a route, etc.).